Electrically benign behavior of grain boundaries in polycrystalline CuInSe2 films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Yan, Yanfa ^a   Jiang, C S ^a   Noufi, R ^a   Wei, Su Huai ^a   Moutinho, H R ^a   Al Jassim, M M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTRICALLY BENIGNS; MICROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTORS;

POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 36849080817     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.235504     Document Type: Article

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